Author: Tim
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Anna Akhmatova: “I Taught Myself to Live Simply…”
I taught myself to live simply and wisely, to look at the sky and pray to God, and to wander long before evening to tire my superfluous worries. When the burdocks rustle in the ravine and the yellow-red rowanberry cluster droops I compose happy verses about life’s decay, decay and beauty. I come back. The…
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David Bentley Hart: Really To Know, One Must Love
…the truth of being is “poetic” before it is “rational” – indeed is rational precisely as a result of its supreme poetic coherence and richness of detail – and cannot be truly known if this order is reversed. Beauty is the beginning and end of all true knowledge: really to know anything, one must first…
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Louise Erdrich: We look, to see if we are loved.
“I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun’s slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved.” In her book, The Last Report on the…
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T.S. Eliot: “…And Know The Place For The First Time”
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The…
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Straw Atonement Theories
One of the dilettante hobbies of the secular liberati is mocking a god who doesn’t exist and who Christians should hate if he did exist. But it is an amusing hobby, and so persists. These cheap thrills take many forms – for example, the atonement, as imagined by those who hate the very idea of…
